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Dug up some old files….updated the playlist. Enjoy! :-)
IF A MOVIE WAS MADE OF YOUR LIFE, WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE?
So, here’s how it works:
Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, etc).
Put it on shuffle.
Press play.
For every question type the song that’s playing.
When you go to a new question press the next button.
Ready? GO!
Opening Credits: Chrome Division—The Angel Falls
Waking Up: Blaqk Audio—Stiff Kittens
Falling In Love: The 69 Eyes—Dead Girls Are Easy
Fight Scene: Blink 182—Mutt
Breaking Up: Linkin Park—Blackout
Make-up: Celldweller—Subterra
Secret Love: Bush—Bomb
Life’s Okay: Skrillex—Drop Dead(Club Mix)
Mental Breakdown: Nine Inch Nails—The Line Begins To Blur
Driving: MC Frontalot—Better At Rapping
Flashbacks: Nightwish—Dead Boys Poem
Partying: Nine Inch Nails—Only
Happy Dance: Lordi—Bite It Like A Bulldog
Regretting: Tool—Reflection
Long Night Alone: Breaking Benjamin—Ordinary Man
Final Battle: Hollywood Undead—El Urgencia
Death Scene: Heavy Manners—Rude Boy Jam
Ending Credits: MC Chris—Pizza Butt
June 2011
2 posts
May 2011
3 posts
Coming very soon! I PROMISE! I have a lot of projects in the works and I can’t wait to share them with everyone! WAIT til you see the project I am currently working on with my buddy Ian. It’s gonna be insane…. :-)
February 2011
4 posts
Best motion picture of the year
Black Swan
The Fighter
Inception
The Kids Are All Right
The King’s Speech
127 Hours
The Social Network
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter’s Bone
My Pick: Social Network
Predicted Win: Social Network
Performance by an actor in a leading role
Javier Bardem (Biutiful)
Jeff Bridges (True Grit)
Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network)
Colin Firth (The King’s Speech)
James Franco (127 Hours)
My Pick: Jeff Bridges
Predicted Win: Colin Firth
Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Christian Bale (The Fighter)
John Hawkes (Winter’s Bone)
Jeremy Renner (The Town)
Mark Ruffalo (The Kids Are All Right)
Geoffrey Rush (The King’s Speech)
My Pick: Geoffrey Rush
Predicted Win: Geoffrey Rush
Performance by an actress in a leading role
Annette Bening (The Kids Are All Right)
Nicole Kidman (Rabbit Hole)
Jennifer Lawrence (Winter’s Bone)
Natalie Portman (Black Swan)
Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine)
My Pick: Natalie Portman
Predicted Win: Natalie Portman
Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Amy Adams (The Fighter)
Helena Bonham Carter (The King’s Speech)
Melissa Leo (The Fighter)
Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit)
Jacki Weaver (Animal Kingdom)
My Pick: Helena Bonham Carter
Predicted Win: Helena Bonham Carter
Achievement in directing
Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan)
David O Russell (The Fighter)
Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech)
David Fincher (The Social Network)
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (True Grit)
My Pick: Darren Aronofsky
Predicted Win: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
Adapted screenplay
127 Hours - Danny Boyle & Simon Beaufoy
The Social Network - Aaron Sorkin
Toy Story 3 - Michael Arndt (screenplay); John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich (story)
True Grit - Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
Winter’s Bone - Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini
My Pick: True Grit
Predicted Win: The Social Network
Original screenplay
Another Year - Mike Leigh
The Fighter - Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson (screenplay); Keith Dorrington,
Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson (story)
Inception - Christopher Nolan
The Kids Are All Right - Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg
The King’s Speech - David Seidler
My Pick: The King’s Speech
Predicted Win: The Kings Speech
Best animated feature film of the year
How to Train Your Dragon
The Illusionist
Toy Story 3
My Pick: The Illusionist
Predicted Win: Toy Story 3
Best foreign language film of the year
Biutiful (Mexico)
Dogtooth (Greece)
In a Better World (Denmark)
Incendies (Canada)
Outside the Law (Hors-la-loi) (Algeria)
My Pick: Biutiful
Predicted Win: Biutiful
Art direction
Alice in Wonderland - Robert Stromberg (production design), Karen O’Hara (set decoration)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 - Stuart Craig (production design), Stephenie McMillan (set decoration)
Inception - Guy Hendrix Dyas (production design), Larry Dias and Doug Mowat (set decoration)
The King’s Speech - Eve Stewart (production design), Judy Farr (set decoration)
True Grit - Jess Gonchor (production design), Nancy Haigh (set decoration)
My Pick: Inception
Predicted Win: Inception
Achievement in cinematography
Matthew Libatique (Black Swan)
Wally Pfister (Inception)
Danny Cohen (The King’s Speech)
Jeff Cronenweth (The Social Network)
Roger Deakins (True Grit)
My Pick: Black Swan
Predicted Win: Black Swan
Achievement in costume design
Colleen Atwood (Alice in Wonderland)
Antonella Cannarozzi (I Am Love)
Jenny Beavan (The King’s Speech)
Sandy Powell (The Tempest)
Mary Zophres (True Grit)
My Pick: Colleen Atwood
Predicted Win: Colleen Atwood
Best documentary feature
Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy and Jaimie D’Cruz)
Gasland (Josh Fox and Trish Adlesic)
Inside Job (Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs)
Restrepo (Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger)
Waste Land (Lucy Walker and Angus Aynsley)
My Pick: Exit Through the Gift Shop
Predicted Win: Gasland
Best documentary short subject
Killing in the Name (Nominees to be determined)
Poster Girl (Nominees to be determined)
Strangers No More (Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon)
Sun Come Up (Jennifer Redfearn and Tim Metzger)
The Warriors of Qiugang (Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon)
My Pick: Killing in the Name
Predicted Win: Strangers No More
Achievement in film editing
Andrew Weisblum (Black Swan)
Pamela Martin (The Fighter)
Tariq Anwar (The King’s Speech)
Jon Harris (127 Hours)
Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter (The Social Network)
My Pick: Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter
Predicted Win: Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter
Achievement in makeup
Adrien Morot (Barney’s Version)
Edouard F Henriques, Gregory Funk and Yolanda Toussieng (The Way Back)
Rick Baker and Dave Elsey (The Wolfman)
My Pick: ?REALLY? These are my options? Fine…. Best Guess….Barney’s Version.
Predicted Win: Uhh…..The Way Back?
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (original score)
John Powell (How to Train Your Dragon)
Hans Zimmer (Inception)
Alexandre Desplat (The King’s Speech)
AR Rahman (127 Hours)
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (The Social Network)
My Pick: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
Predicted Win: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (original song)
Coming Home (from Country Strong, music and lyrics by Tom Douglas, Troy Verges and Hillary Lindsey)
I See the Light (from Tangled, music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Glenn Slater)
If I Rise (from 127 Hours, music by AR Rahman, lyrics by Dido and Rollo Armstrong)
We Belong Together (from Toy Story 3, music and lyrics by Randy Newman)
My Pick: If I Rise
Predicted Win: We Belong Together (fucking randy newman. Left Foot, Right Foot…..)
Best animated short film
Day & Night (Teddy Newton)
The Gruffalo (Jakob Schuh and Max Lang)
Let’s Pollute (Geefwee Boedoe)
The Lost Thing (Nick Batzias, Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann)
Madagascar, carnet de voyage (Madagascar, a Journey Diary) (Bastien Dubois)
My Pick: Truthfully, no clue. Gonna guess…. Let’s Pollute
Predicted Win: Let’s Pollute
Best live action short film
The Confession (Tanel Toom)
The Crush (Michael Creagh)
God of Love (Luke Matheny)
Na Wewe (Ivan Goldschmidt)
Wish 143 (Ian Barnes and Samantha Waite)
My Pick: Again, no idea, so guessing…. Wish 143
Predicted Win: God of Love
Achievement in sound editing
Inception (Richard King)
Toy Story 3 (Tom Myers and Michael Silvers)
Tron: Legacy (Gwendolyn Yates Whittle and Addison Teague)
True Grit (Skip Lievsay and Craig Berkey)
Unstoppable (Mark P Stoeckinger)
My Pick: Inception
Predicted Win: Inception
Achievement in sound mixing
Inception (Lora Hirschberg, Gary A Rizzo and Ed Novick)
The King’s Speech (Paul Hamblin, Martin Jensen and John Midgley)
Salt (Jeffrey J Haboush, Greg P Russell, Scott Millan and William Sarokin)
The Social Network (Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick and Mark Weingarten)
True Grit (Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter F Kurland)
My Pick: The Social Network
Predicted Win: Inception
Achievement in visual effects
Alice in Wonderland (Ken Ralston, David Schaub, Carey Villegas and Sean Phillips)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (Tim Burke, John Richardson, Christian Manz and Nicolas Aithadi)
Hereafter (Michael Owens, Bryan Grill, Stephan Trojanski and Joe Farrell)
Inception (Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb)
Iron Man 2 (Janek Sirrs, Ben Snow, Ged Wright and Daniel Sudick)
My Pick: Iron Man 2
Predicted Win: Alice In Wonderland
I wait for sleep to hold me tight and drift away in dark-washed night. However, my dreams may falter and fray. Forever my dreams will keep me awake.
January 2011
2 posts
I’m excited about this new social networking adventure…off to explore!